MIT Architecture talking about autism issues

Aesthetic, spiritual and ergonomic questions aside, what for most of us would be a functional space can be an unbearable sensory experience to people with autism.

But the director of San Antonio’s Autism Treatment Center, Alonzo Andrews, along with the SHW Group, hope to not only address that issue but also take architecture to a new therapeutic level with the center’s new outpatient therapy clinic, on which Andrews and SHW designers were slated to present to MIT’s School of Architecture today.

The idea is that facilities for autism should not only promote therapy and learning, but also be in themselves tools for understanding and researching Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The ATC plans to break ground on the 6,000-square-foot clinic and meditation garden in January.